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Dirty Reality Catching Up With Fossil Fuel Vehicles
This week marks an important transitional step away from the obsolete technology of dirty fossil fuel vehicles and in favor of electric vehicles that can run on clean energy. The Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) has come into force in the EU from 1st of September 2018, leading to much hand-wringing by the traditional fossil…
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$100/kWh Tesla Battery Cells This Year, $100/kWh Tesla Battery Packs In 2020
One of the more interesting revelations to come out of the 2018 Tesla Shareholder Meeting was updated information about Tesla’s current battery costs and projected reductions over the next 2 years. Battery costs, coming through cutting-edge cell chemistry as well as more efficient production processes, are a key differentiator in the race to enable EVs that achieve overall…
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Anthropologies as stories of life
I’ve recently reviewed Tim Ingold and Gisli Palsson’s Biosocial Becomings (2013) for Current Anthropology. The draft text of my review is reproduced here. (Please cite from published version, due June or August 2015). Biosocial Becomings continues the editors’ broader project(s) of overhauling sociocultural anthropology’s conception of its relationship with biology (defined broadly as an account of all…
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My Book hailed as “A landmark in the field of evolutionary biology”
An early journal review of my book Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship has described it as “a landmark in the field of evolutionary biology, which places genetic determinism in the correct perspective.” (Folia Primatologica 2014;85:215) You can find the book online in print and e-book versions. You can also download open-source versions of the book here:…
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A note to Evolutionary Psychologists: Why culture and science are two sides of the same coin
“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.” (Dennett 1995) To those who would dismiss anthropology’s engagement with questions of culture: read Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and then try arguing that culture and language play no role in the construction of models and…
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Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship – Now Available
Holland, Maximilian. 2012. Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship: compatibility between cultural and biological approaches. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN-13: 978-1480182004 The book is now available in paperback (around €10), kindle (around €1), as well as in other ebook formats (€ free!) (PDF, ODT, EPUB). You are welcome to download Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship for free…
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I’m an anthropologist who – like most of humanity – is tired of 500 years of western imperialism and lies. There’s a lot to learn and much of it is hidden from view, left unacknowledged, or conveniently forgotten.
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Maximilian Holland 